ARTICLES
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Portable and Somewhat Potable (Reviewing Volute’s New Single Serving Wines)
It’s not often that one receives three small (187 ml) aluminum shatterproof bottles of French wine in the mail. Even for someone who is used to getting media samples of wine, this was a first. So when a package arrived…
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Wine 1.7rc3 (Why Wine 2.0 Isn’t Quite There… Yet)
Web 2.0 – the two-fer, el internet dos, the big web deuce. You understand it totally, right? Me neither! Good – that means we can embark on this here post together without any pretense… you know, we don’t have to…
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The Summer of Wine’s Discontent (or "What Wine Can Learn From Beer")
The wine world probably won’t miss the Summer of `08. That’s because the Summer of `08 seems like wine’s Season of Discontent. A fictitious restaurant won an Award of Excellence from long-running wine institution Wine Spectator; Wine Spectator’s response, posted…
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An Open Letter to (Busty) California Winemakers
To Whom It May Concern: I’ve just polished off another 1/2 of a bottle of your tasty, 14.5% abv wines… in fact, I’m pretty sure that even though it said 14.5% on the elegant bottle, it was probably closer to…
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